Tamil Nadu MBBS/BDS admission process

In Tamil Nadu, admission process for filling Undergraduate Medical/dental seats is administered by The Directorate of Medical Education (DME), Tamil Nadu. The aim is to fill the tentative 3947 MBBS seats and 985 BDS seats in the medical and dental colleges of Tamil Nadu state. The admission to these seats will be based on the NEET 2019 score. Out of these seats, 85% seats are state quota seats for which DME, Tamil Nadu will organize counseling based on state merit rank derived from NEET scores and 15% are AIQ seats which will be filled by MCC on the basis of NEET 2019 Score.  

Tamil Nadu Colleges offering MBBS and their sanctioned seats

Tamil Nadu Colleges offering BDS and their sanctioned seats

 Note: These are the total seats available for admission. The available seats for various categories are mentioned in the prospectus 2019.

Admission Process

For admission to MBBS/BDS courses in Tamil Nadu, candidates were required to register online by filling the application form which was available at http://www.tnhealth.org/ from June 7, 2019 to June 20, 2019. Candidates had to download the receipt of online application form filled and had to send it with required enclosures to the following address:

The Secretary, Selection Committee,

162, Periyar EVR High Road,

Kilpauk, Chennai-600 010

Tentative Dates for admission and counseling schedule

1^st round of counseling

2^nd round of counselling

Counselling Process

For Tamil Nadu MBBS/BDS admissions, total three rounds of counselling will be conducted including a mop-up round (if required). The admission authority will separately release the provisional state merit list for each round. The list will be prepared on the basis of NEET-2019 score and it would include the details like name, roll number, NEET overall AIR, NEET marks, percentile, and date of birth.

Round-I:

The admission authority will publish the provisional state merit list for 1^st round on July 2, 2019. Candidates whose names will be displayed in the state merit list will be eligible to attend the first round of counseling.

Government quota:

For admission under government quota including I.R.T. Medical College, Perundurai, Erode; Government seats in Self- Financing Medical / Dental Colleges affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University; Rajah Muthiah Medical / Dental College affiliated to the Annamalai University; Chidambaram and ESIC Medical College and PGIMSR, K.K.Nagar, Chennai; the counseling for 1^st round will be conducted from July 5, 2019 to July 12, 2019.

Management quota:

For admission under management quota including NRI in self - financing Medical / Dental colleges and Christian Medical College, Vellore, the counseling for 1^st round will be conducted from July 16, 2019 to July 18, 2019.

To participate in first round of counseling, candidates need to pay a non refundable amount of Rs 500 (for government quota seat) and Rs 1000 (for management quota seats) as a processing fee by means of Demand Draft drawn in favour of “The Secretary, Selection Committee, Kilpauk, Chennai-10”payable at Chennai.

The authority will publish the result of seat allotment for first round. Aspirants whose name will be displayed in the seat allotment result of round one will need to download their seat allotment letters and need to report at the allotted institute for document submission.

Note: Candidates who will be allotted seat in 1^st round of counseling and donot join the institute in the stipulated time; will not be eligible for subsequent rounds of counseling. Also those who have not participated in 1^st round will not be eligible to participate in other rounds of counseling.

Round-II (to be notified)

After round-I of counseling, the counseling authority will conduct a second round of counseling (to be notified) to fill the vacant seats. Candidates who will not be allotted seats in first round of counseling can attend the round-II. The candidates who are waitlisted/ re-allotted need not pay the processing fee.

Mop up round (to be notified)

All those candidates who will be granted seats in 1st & 2nd round and those candidates who will be in waiting list or to whom the choices were not available during 1st round and 2nd round will be eligible to participate in mop up round.